"What's going on... Why are these Ghost Beasts attacking us..."
Everyone's faces turned incomparably pale at that moment. The sudden assault by the Ghost Beasts and the Soul Refining Sect disciples gave the cultivators who had rushed too far ahead no time to react. Moreover, their soul attacks seemed to converge into one, transforming into a terrifying shockwave that erupted outward. Even someone on the outskirts like Lin Chuan was heavily affected, let alone those in the middle. Their souls were practically annihilated in an instant.
The fact that Jing Jie had survived was truly a miracle. His soul cultivation was not particularly strong, and without the protection of the bronze oil lamp, he gained no advantage against the Soul Refining Sect disciples. Being suppressed and beaten had also made him overly aggressive when he saw signs of the Soul Refining Sect collapsing, directly resulting in his severe injuries.
"These Ghost Beasts have already been controlled by the Soul Refining Sect. Damn it, I should have thought of that long ago!" Young Master Hai's expression became exceptionally ugly. Quite a few of his subordinates had charged forward just now, and now they had become corpses plummeting from the sky to the ground. Among them was even Zhang Shaoyang of Nine Star Peak, whom Lin Chuan knew!
"Damn it!!! We were actually set up by the Soul Refining Sect!" Chen Xiao, one of the Three Heroes of Central River, looked frighteningly grim as well.
"What... what exactly happened... How did this happen..." Seeing nearly a hundred people instantly killed, Huang Tong, another of the Three Heroes, was completely stunned, unable to process what had happened in that brief instant.
"Do you remember the changes to the passage rules earlier? Before, passages would only appear after we killed the Ghost Beasts. But